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Issue: "Tick, tick, tick ..."
May 07, 2011
Turning 65
With work to be done, this is no time for R&R | by John Piper
Turning 65 in January has me all fired up to get busy. I am close enough to the finish line that the face of Jesus is coming into sharper focus. This is very exciting and makes me want to pick up the pace.
Of course, He is not the least impressed with frenzy. Nor is He pleased with boomer indolence. What His face says to me is: "I am your rest every day, and there is good work to do every day till you're home."
God has called me to this one great thing, and His face affirms it every day: With full courage, now (after 65) as always, Christ will be magnified in your body, whether by life or by death (Philippians 1:20). Live now to make much of Christ. Measure everything by this: Will it help more people admire Jesus more intensely and treasure Jesus more deeply?
The Bible says, "The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty" (Psalms 90:10). But of course, "My times are in your hand" (Psalms 31:15). The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. We don't live one day longer or shorter than God appoints.
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